The Totally Taryn Blog
Consumer Trust In Brands Is Low. Here’s How To Build Trust And Avoid “Greenwashing”
We’ve all seen it. Especially this time of year. The dubious marketing claims that exploit our genuine environmental concerns. Which only serve to generate confusion and skepticism toward planet-friendly products. Well, there’s a name for that! It’s called “greenwashing” and it needs to end.
Why? Well for starters because it causes real damage. A recent study showed that ONLY 6.4% of people believe companies are telling the truth when they talk about their climate efforts. Yikes! Undoing the damage done by decades of false and misleading claims by brands and advertisers is clearly going to be an uphill battle.
2022 Social Media Strategy
That’s right, it’s the time of year when all your favorite service providers take out their Magic 8 balls and start making their predictions for the coming year. The problem is that this year, while most of us marketing folks are just trying to wind down and get ready for a little break over the holidays, our favorite social media platforms and tech companies seem hell-bent on changing the game as often as possible!
Now any social media professional will tell you that keeping track of platform update is quite literally a full-time job, so while we could write a whole paper about what to expect in the coming months, we wanted to focus on the larger trends that we believe should propel your Socially Conscious Social Strategy in 2022.